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Cisco® announces Cisco Broadband Access Center (BAC) 4.0. Cisco BAC provides a centralized and automated subscriber device management system for service providers to control and configure home gateways and the IP devices behind the gateways.

The Cisco BAC platform is highly scalable and reliable, with industry-leading performance. It supports multiple technologies and devices including DOCSIS
®, PacketCable
™, CableHome
™, and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), as well as providing the extensibility to support customer proprietary devices. Table 1 describes the new features of Cisco BAC 4.0.

Table 1. New Features of Cisco Broadband Access Center 4.0

Feature

Description

DOCSIS 3.0 support

Support for channel bonding and IPv6 devices; support for mixed IPv4 and IPv6 device environment

Availability

Cisco Broadband Access Center 4.0 will begin shipping February 28, 2008. Customers who want to purchase this product can place orders through their normal sales channels beginning February 28, 2008.